Useful Hebrew Phrases

shalom
lehitra'ot
boker tov
toda
toda raba
tov me'od
bevakasha
ken
lo
regga
rak regga
beseder gamur
sababa hegozim
ma shlom cha?
baruch hashem
savlanut (= patience)
bidiyuk (= exactly)

My First Hebrew Lesson

I met with Chen for some Hebrew lesson this evening. It was totally a Donna Chang situation, because her name wasn’t really Chen, but חן. There wasn’t any English equivalent. Anyway, getting through the alphabet was challenging, since there were many exceptions to the rule. At the end, I tried to say something coherent:

אני אהוב את סין

Was it?